Digital TV Antenna Reviews: Indoor, Outdoor, Amplified, HDTV
If you are looking for a new indoor or outdoor digital TV antenna, HDTV antenna, amplified antenna or smart antenna then you have found the right place.
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Top Digital TV Antenna Manufacturers
If you are trying to decided on a new digital TV antenna in order to get better digital TV reception then you have a big decision ahead of you.
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Top Digital TV Antenna Manufacturers
Digital TV Antenna Installation Tips
If you have already checked out the section on our blog about the different types of TV antennas and used our TV antenna reviews to pick out an antenna then the next step is it install your antenna. In regards to TV antenna installation we are not experts because we focus mainly on the retail side of things. Despite this we have put together a short list of TV antenna installation tips that we feel will help you through the installation process
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Digital TV Antenna Installation Tips
10 Best Digital TV Antenna
Below are digital antennas you can buy. Please read product details carefully.
Digital TV Make Frustrate?
Since the digital transition last month, Olga Nava said she has had nothing but problems with her television.
After deciding to purchase a digital converter box instead of paying for cable, the San Antonian said she has gone through two antennas, with neither having much luck finding a signal.
“I’m not going to spend any more on an antenna,” she said Friday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church on West Commerce Street, where volunteers offered advice and help to senior citizens still confused about the conversion to digital signals. “I don’t like the digital. To me, they made a big mistake.”
Nava was one of several who regularly attend the senior citizens center at the church for lunch, bingo or dancing. But on Friday, the day’s activities were dedicated to helping them understand the digital transition that took effect June 12.
Melissa Palacios, DTV project coordinator for the William C. Velasquez Institute, said many people in San Antonio still don’t have a strong television signal. The deadline, she said, to apply for a coupon to purchase a digital converter box is Friday.
“The FCC funded nonprofit community action groups to help with DTV because we know the community best,” Palacios said. “It’s a good thing because this has been a bit of a search-and-rescue mission with many people still having problems.”
Palacios said the FCC believed San Antonio was well-prepared for the digital TV transition, but senior citizens and Spanish-speaking citizens continue to have problems with their converter boxes, obtaining government coupons or understanding what has happened.
The South Texas Resource and Assistance Center also had representatives at the event, offering to help with coupon applications and signing up people who need their converter boxes installed.
STRAC will continue to help with installation after the Friday deadline, officials said.
Despite months of preparation, information about last month’s transition didn’t reach many senior citizens and Spanish-speaking communities, said Imelda Morales, San Antonio’s campaign coordinator for the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights.
“Someone helping you in person is different than hearing it on the radio or seeing it on TV,” Morales said. “This is very foreign for them and they need real people to help them.”
For more information, call the LCCR at (210) 237-5119. For free installation, call STRAC at (830) 393-7888.
Source: mysanantonio.com
Digital TV Converter Box Resources
Try your converter box as soon as you get it home to start watching digital television immediately and to troubleshoot potential problems. The Web sites below offer help in identifying and solving potential issues. If you are having problems with reception, call your local broadcast station. For general information about the DTV transition, visit www.dtv.gov or call 1-888-CALL-FCC (voice) or 1-888-TELL-FCC (TTY).
www.dtv.gov – DTV related consumer resources, outreach tools, publications, news, and more can be found here.
www.digitaltips.org – Visit the Consumer Electronics Association’s Web site which includes a “Quick Start Guide” to install a TV converter box and other useful tools.
www.dtvanswers.com – DTV Answers offers more information about television’s analog shut-off, including resources to help choose an antenna, converter box details, videos and more.
www.ceretailers.org – Visit the Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition and download a special “Consumer Guide” on the DTV transition.
www.dtvtransition.org – Take an online quiz to find out if you are ready for the DTV transition or access an extensive list of online DTV resources.
www.getreadyfordigitaltv.com – Useful information and television spots provided by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.
www.ncta.com – The National Cable & Telecommunications Association Web site.
www.lptvanswers.com – A helpful resource on low-power television stations. Find low-power stations in your area and download a guide to low-power issues.
Study on digital-to-analog converter boxes
Dallas – A recently released tracking study on digital-to-analog converter boxes from Digital Tech Consulting (DTC) found that nearly 7 million units shipped during the second quarter of 2009.
The market research firm said the results were actually “healthier than expected.”
An update to the study shows that nearly 45 million D/A converter boxes have shipped into retail outlets from the beginning of the coupon program through the second quarter of 2009.
“Given the high number of coupon applications received in June and the first part of July, it is likely that several million more will ship through year end,” stated Myra Moore, DTC principal.
With the largest portion of the transition now complete in the largest market in world, DTC said that more activity waits D/A converter box makers. With the exception of Germany, The Netherlands and a handful of smaller Western European countries, the rest of the world has yet to pull the analog TV plug, DTC observes.
Some 79 percent of the countries in the world have yet to start commercial digital terrestrial TV (DTT) transmissions, although 42 percent have pledged to do so in the near future.
Still, no one market offers the same potential that U.S. transition did and not all countries have made a digital TV system conversion a priority at this time.
However, DTC pointed out, companies selling DTT receivers “don’t have to worry about the well going dry just yet. From 2010 to 2013, some populous and/or prosperous countries are scheduled to shut off their analog systems — among them Canada, the U.K., France, Ireland, Italy, Spain and South Korea.”
A significant number of countries are now testing, building, or planning a system, DTC said.
“Equipment suppliers will just have to work a little harder to tailor solutions to individual countries that will likely make their jobs harder by building systems that will vary slightly from country to country,” Moore observed. “Plus, the transition has already been completed for the U.S., which has 100 million TV households. Not many of those kinds of TV household penetrations left in the world — oh, except for China.”
For information on acquiring the full report, contact Myra Moore at myra@dtcreports.com. Source
Get your digital TV converter box coupons
July 31 is the deadline to apply for the $40 discount on converter boxes for analog television sets, the Commerce Department says.
Been staring at a blank TV picture since June 12, when broadcasters switched to all-digital?
That’s a likely sign the television is of the old analog type and can’t process digital signals without a converter box. The federal government has been issuing $40 coupons that nearly offset the price of the boxes, which are available online and in many consumer electronics stores.
But next week could be your last chance to get in on the discount program. The Commerce Department says it will accept applications for coupons only through Friday. Applications are taken online at www.dtv2009.gov, and each household can receive a maximum of two coupons.
If you use a cable or satellite service for television and plan to stay with it, you don’t have to worry. Those services are already providing the conversion.
If you have a fairly new TV set, it’s probably digital already; if so, no box is needed.
The folks in need of converter boxes are those with older, analog sets who get their TV via over-the-air broadcasts. Source: latimes.com
Tivax DT-01 Amplified Indoor Digital TV Antenna (Black)
Product Description
Enjoy high quality digital programming without paying monthly digital cable or satellite fees with this new Tivax DT-01 indoor DTV/TV antenna. The device is specially designed to receive digital broadcast signals from the major free networks. This product is suitable for use with an external 9V DC power supply for camper, boat, etc. Other features include rotatable dipole for the best reception of V/H polarization in UHF band, two adjustable stylus antenna for the best reception in VHF band, and changeable blue LED for reception indication.
Technical Details
- Amplified indoor digital tv antenna
- Pick up over the air digital broadcast signals from the major free networks
- Suitable for external 9 volt DC power supply for use in campers or boats
- Rotatable dipole and two adjustable stylus antenna for the best reception in UHF and VHF bands
- Changeable blue led for reception indication
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